Not going to agree with this. The failure of schools (and my parents) to recognise and make allowance for #Autism in my childhood has had devastating consequences for my whole life.
Yes, medicalising it would also have been bad. But we should be pushing for more enlightenment, not less.
Simon Brooke
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